Astro Vellithirai

Astro Vellithirai
Country	Malaysia
Broadcast area	Malaysia
Programming
Language(s)	Tamil
Picture format	16:9 HDTV (1080i)
Ownership
Owner	Astro Malaysia Holdings
Parent	Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd. (Astro)
Sister channels	Astro Vaanavil; Astro Vinmeen; Astro Thangathirai
History
Launched	16 April 2007 (SD) (Malaysia) ; 14 April 2022 (HD) (Malaysia)
Founder	Ananda Krishnan
Closed	1 July 2020 (Singapore) ; 14 April 2022 (SD) (Malaysia)

Astro Vellithirai is a 24-hour Tamil language movie channel and also known as the Tamil version of the Asian HBO, showing the local and Kollywood movies.^[1]^[2] The channel began its broadcast on 16 April 2007 on channel 74, and moved to channel 202 on 1 October of the same year due to channel renumbering. Most of the movies are available in English subtitles.

The channel is available for all Astro and NJOI customers.

References

^ "Redirecting to Astro What's on". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
^ "Singtel TV : Channels & On Demand : Channels : CH624 Astro Vellithirai". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

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[1] "Redirecting to Astro What's on". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

[2] "Singtel TV : Channels & On Demand : Channels : CH624 Astro Vellithirai". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

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